Mâcon

Meaning

1. Alternative spelling of Macon, red or white burgundy wine from Mâcon or extremely similar to such wines.
2. A city and commune, the prefecture of Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

Etymology / origin

Borrowed from French Mâcon, from earlier Mascon and Medieval Latin Masconis, a syncopated form of Madasconis and Matisco, probably from Gaulish matus (“bear”) (from Proto-Celtic *matus, commonly understood as a euphemistic derivation from *matis (“good”)), and a suffix equivalent to -iscus (“-ish: forming adjectives”).

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